NSA Issues List of Vulnerabilities Used by Chinese Backed Hackers – JD Supra

The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a Cybersecurity Advisory on October 20, 2020, entitled Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Exploit Publicly Known Vulnerabilities, alerting IT professionals to 25 vulnerabilities that Chinese state-sponsored hackers are using against U.S. businesses that can be exploited to gain initial access to victim networks using products that are directly accessible from the internet and act as gateways to internal networks. The Advisory is designed to share information with security professionals to urge them to update systems to protect against the attacks.

According to the notice, [W]e hope that by highlighting the vulnerabilities that China is actively using to compromise systems, cybersecurity professionals will gain actionable information to prioritize efforts and secure their systems.

The 25 vulnerabilities can be accessed here:

The Advisory further provides general mitigation steps that companies can employ:

The vulnerabilities are listed in detail in the Advisory and companies may wish to confirm that all of the vulnerabilities listed have been patched on their systems.

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